Safety appliance for garment pockets



A. M. CHAFFEE sum: APPLIANCE FOR GARMENT P'OCKETS Jan, 22, 1929.

Filed Sept. 8. 1925 IZZY/E17 for.

Patented Jan. 22, 1929.

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SAFETY APPLIANCE FOR- GABIVIENT POCKETS.

Application fil ed September This invention relates to a novel safetyappliance for pockets in clothing or wearing apparel; the prime objectof my invention being to provide a simple, inexpensive,unobtrusive andefficient means, applicable to pockets in which articles such asfountain pens, pencils or other instruments are carried, that willeffectively prevent the escape and loss from the pocket of sucharticles, regardless of what occupation the wearer may pursue, or ofwhat position the pocket may assume incident to the various movements,performances and activities of the individual, or its use in practice.

Another object is the provision of means of the characterdescribed, asadapted for ready application to the mouths of pockets in the manner andfor the purpose set forth, as more fully hereinafter explained.

These objects I attain by the method and means set forth in thefollowing description and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, (1sheet,) wherein Fi 1 is a front view illustrating my invention, aportion removed to show the interior; Fig. 2 is an inside view at thetop of a pocket provided with my improved safety appliance; Fig. 3 is avertical cross section, at line X X on Fi 1. Fig. 4 illustrates a mannerin which the safety appliance material may be preparatively formed forready and convenient application to use; and Fig. 5 represents atransverse section thereof drawn to an en larged scale.

My invention consists in the peculiar arrangement with the garmentpocket of a safety appliance of the character specified comprising apiece of whipcord, twisted or braided twine, or equivalent flexible compressible material, connected with a narrow textile tape or band ofstitchable fabric, said cord disposed to extend across the mouth oropening of the pocket at a position Wholly behind the front finish weltadjacent to and approximately parallel with the top edge thereof andpermanently secured or stitched to the interior fabric of the pocket;said cord affording an inwardly protuberant semi-soft ridge of flexibleand laterally resilient nature whereon the usual clips used on pens,pencils, etc, will attain a much stronger hold than heretoforeavailable.

Referring to the drawings numeral 2 indicates the fabric of a vest orgarment wherein the pocket is arranged. 3 is the usual welt forming theoutside finish at the mouth open- 8, 1925. Serial No. 54,958.

ing; and 4 indicates the pocket proper of usual convenient or desireddimension for carrymg such articles as a fountain-pen A, a pencil B, orother like portable articles, the same being individually provided witha suitable grip-finger or spring clip C, as commonly employed thereon.

Numeral 5 indicates an inwardly protuberant ridge comprising a cord ofmoderately compressible laterally resilient nature, arranged upon theexterior and protuberant entirely upon the inner sideof the outlyingfree port-ion of the pocket 4, said ridge being positioned transverselyacross the interior of the mouth opening below the top edge 6 of theopening, and there secured in place, preferably by sewing the cord, orconnecting members assembled therewith, to the pocket fabric. The lengthof the section of cord 5 is limited to approximately correspond with theinside width of the pocket, so that it can be readily applied to the mggarment.

A strip or web of pliable fabric 7, abou one-half inch, more or less, inwidth, is assembled with the cord, affording oppositely outspreadattaching members along the respective edges, said members being adaptedto be stitched to or permanently secured flatwise to the pocket fabric,as at 8, above and below the line of cord, for confining the cordthroughout its length, but permitting the lateral compression andresilience of the inwardly protuberant ridge 5; said attaching meansalso forming a fair finish for the interior of the pocket month.

For the cord 5, a whipcord, or similar twisted or braided moderatelyhard twine of textile fiber, and of about one-sixteenth to one-eighthinch diameter, more or less, preferably used. Such cord is sufficientlyliable not to interfere in any Way with the use of the pocket, or theplacing and withdrawal of the pencils, pens, etc, therein, while it issufficiently compressible and resilient laterally to maintain a securehold of pocket of an exist the clips C thereon, even when the position 7of pocket is inverted.

As an eflicient and desirable method in the preparative production ofthis safety appliance, the cord 5 can be primarily united to or combinedwith the stitch receiving fabric 7 in long strips suitable to be outinto lengths as required (see Fig. 4.). In some instances the cord 5 maybe inwoven as a prominent outstanding warp member singly disposed alongone side of a narrow woven webbing of the shown cross section form (seeFig. .5), and of indefinite length, and having thin marginal portions 7*suitably woven in flatside connection therewith for receiving thestitching 8. Such preparatively formed ma terial is adapted to be keptin stock. convenient for ready use, and to be cut to lengths as requiredfor pockets of diiferent sizes. and readily attached in place by anyperson when making or repairing the garment. This construction I desireto include as a feature of my invention.

My invention provides a very desirable, inexpensive and highly efficientmeans for the purpose contemplated; and while it is entirely unobtrusivein external appearance, it is of much practical advantage and utility inresultant effect.

What I claim as of my invention and de sire to secure by Letters Patentis:

1.,A safety appliance for garment pockets of the character described,comprising in combination with the outlying portion of the pocket, alimited unitary section of flexible, moderately coarse laterallyresilient cord, disposed inwardly protuberant wholly upon the inner sideof and positioned transversely across within the mouth ofthe pocket, astrip of fabric arranged upon and affording oppositely outspreadattachable members along the cord, said members being respectivelyflatwise secured to the inner fabric of the pocket above and below thecord, for conlin ing said cord along its alinement while permittingtransverse resilience of the cord.

2. A safety means of the character de scribed, comprising a coarseflexible cord of laterally resilient nature, longitudinally disposedupon and primarily united along its side with one face of a narrow stripof pliable fabric, said pliable fabric forming narrow outstandingmarginal wing-portions attached to said cord; in combination with theinterior facing in a garment pocket. and positioned across the mouthopening, behind the facing welt, and means for securing said strip offlexible fabric and cord to the interior fabric of the pocket adjaccntlybelow the top edge of the opening.

3. In combination with a garment pocket having an exteriorfront-finish-welt across its face adjacently below the pocket opening,an applied inwardly protuberant retaining ridge consisting of a unitaryflexible line of moderately compressible, laterally-resilient nature,and a pliable fabric forming oppositely outspread attachable memberstherefor; said retaining ridge beingpositioned upon and secured to theinterior fabric within the mouth of the pocket, approximately parallelwith and below the top edge of the pocket opening, wholly concealedbehind said front-finish welt.

ALFRED QHAFFEE.

